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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The Flames owners are more impatient than the fans. And really, how do you measure fan impatience? How does it tangibly affect the operation of the team?
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I'm not sure Canadian fans are actually any more impatient. (Not saying you're saying that, this is just further pondering on what you said.) I think it's more that increasing the number of eager fans makes all the extreme voices seem louder.
For example;
If you have 1 fan in ten that's unsatisfied with a prospect, it's easy to see it's just that one guy and the discussion is likely to move on because even that one guy most likely will talk about other topics some of the time.
When you have 1000 fans out of ten thousand it starts to create a situation where at any given moment there's someone talking about how that prospect is a bust, regardless of any other discussions going on.
So even if the fans aren't any more impatient, just increasing the sheer number of people constantly talking hockey makes discussions sound very different.